Prof. Pierre Larouche is a CERRE Honorary Academic  Co-Director. He is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg University and Vice Director of the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), as well as Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris).

Before starting his academic career in 1996 at the University of Maastricht, he clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada in 1991-1992 and practised law for three years in the European Community law unit of Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot in Brussels.